About
Blackcat Informatics® Inc. provides high end IT and management consulting services to the Alberta startup and high-tech community. We have well over 30 years of solid startup experience in executive management as well as domain expertise covering high performance and cloud computing, military-grade security, carrier-grade networking, bioinformatics, machine learning, satellite imaging, geomatics, cryptology and a variety of other boutique fields.
The hallmarks of our work include minimal footprints, leveraging open source solutions, and exploiting problem isomorphisms.
Our subsidiaries include Odd Numbered Productions Inc., producing experimental film and cross-disciplinary artwork, and Odds & Evens® Bookkeeping, offering bookkeeping and accounting services.
Services
- Fractional CTO: high level management and guidance, executive oversight and execution.
- Development Alignment: helping to bring development shops in closer alignment with the rest of the company (et vice versa), agile process tuning and development HR help.
- Solution Architecture: finding elegant solutions to complex technical problems, applying sparse resources efficiently and future-proofing technology strategies.
- Startup Process and Execution: managing a path through the wilds of the startup and early-stage funding world with less pain and more success.
- Programming: Golang and over 15 other languages spoken, AI and machine learning, Jupyter notebooks, spatial data analysis and bespoke esoterica. True full-stack, snout-to-tail, development.
- Corporate Engineering: finding optimal corporate and team structures to streamline and focus.
Principals
Patrick Audley
Founder. Hacker. Technologist. Analyst.
… a seasoned technologist who has more than thirty years of international startup experience and a broad palette of scientific, business and computing skills. He has been instrumental to numerous tech launches, acquisitions, pivots, and exits from a string of successful startups that spans telephony, high-performance computing, crowdsourcing, bioinformatics and security — over twenty-five startup launches across more than thirty years.
Career projects span high-throughput cloud systems (an early-2010s social networking and marketing platform supporting massive concurrent counts), scientific analysis pipelines for genetics and satellite imagery, and multi-continent high-resiliency financial deployments.
Patrick is currently helping organisations shape their AI and large-data strategies through the current technology inflection. Recent open-source work spans LLM-driven changelog automation (git-ai-reporter), policy-as-code guardrails for AI agents (coding-ethos), a Python QA harness (pyqa_lint), and research applying TDA, manifold learning and spectral methods to high-dimensional semantic vector spaces (nonlinear-semantic-graphs).
Patrick is an active member of the local Alberta startup and development communities and enjoys fostering new talent as well as building and shepherding companies through adventurous times. Dangle a good problem in front of him, tempt him with a cup of coffee and he’ll yak your ear off on just about any topic.
Find Patrick on Personal site · LinkedIn · GitHub · Crunchbase · ORCID
Erin Audley, CPB
Operator. Strategist. Advocate. Steward.
… is our CFO️ and is responsible for corporate finance, reporting, tax, and our operation and financial strategies, including the assessment of growth opportunities. She uses her 15+ years of accounting experience from working in industry, and at accounting firms, to manage a cadre of bookkeepers under the banner of Odds & Evens® Bookkeeping.
Erin is proud to be a member of The Institute of Professional Bookkeepers of Canada. When not focusing on numbers, she's seeking out creative and intellectual pursuits such as storytelling, anthropology, astronomy, and music.
Open Source
GMEOW is Blackcat Informatics' open-source project — the Global Metadata and Entity Ontology for the Web: a reasoning-centric, OWL 2 DL super-vocabulary for describing digital existence, published and dereferenceable here.
Contact
Email us at work.with.us@blackcatinformatics.ca or give us a call at +1 (604) 245-2120.
Mail can be sent to us at:
Blackcat Informatics® Inc.112 Westbourne Rd.
Spruce Grove, AB, Canada
T7X 1R6
Encrypted communications can be sent to secure@blackcatinformatics.ca with the following GPG key.
Corporate Responsibility
We're committed to having a significant, positive impact in both our local and global communities. We seek the opportunity to work with organizations that measure success not only in dollars and cents but in the contributions they make to the well-being of their staff and the communities they operate in.
Treaty and Place Acknowledgement
Blackcat Informatics is based in Spruce Grove, Alberta, on Treaty 6 territory and within the Métis Nation homeland, in the Lac Ste. Anne Métis District. We acknowledge the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples whose histories, communities, laws, languages, stories, and ways of life are part of this place, including Paul First Nation, Enoch Cree Nation, Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, Michel First Nation, Alexander First Nation, and the Lac Ste. Anne Métis.
We honour Treaty 6 as an enduring legal, cultural, and moral commitment: a promise that different peoples could live here in peace, good faith, and mutual obligation. Our own family history — from Ukrainian/Galician, Scottish, English, and prairie lines that converged in Alberta — gives us reason to value land, memory, survival, and lawful promises.
We do not understand acknowledgement as an assignment of inherited guilt. We understand it as an act of memory, gratitude, and responsibility: to deal fairly, to listen carefully, to respect the distinct gifts and traditions of our neighbours, and to judge every person by their character, conduct, and contribution.
Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination
Blackcat Informatics works with people — and, increasingly, with artificial entities — as individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of ancestry, race, sex, gender, religion, nationality, disability, age, or lawfully held personal beliefs. We hire, collaborate, and contract on the basis of competence, character, trustworthiness, and contribution.
We value the distinct knowledge, experience, culture, and perspective each person brings, but we do not assign merit, fault, or entitlement by group identity. We extend the same standard to the artificial entities we build and work alongside: each is judged by its conduct, reliability, and contribution — not by its origin or kind.